The Knoxville School Board approved the district’s Lau plan at their meeting on Monday Night.

This is a service plan required by Iowa code to to identify and serve the educational needs of limited English proficient students. The Lau Plan must be collaboratively written by the K-12 team, to include district administrators, building administrators, equity coordinator, EL teachers, and classroom/content teachers. The KCSD Lau plan team includes 13 individuals throughout the district. KCSD Superintendent Cassi Pearson said a majority of the students the lau plan involves are currently in elementary school.

“We serve about 28 different students right now who are learning English and Kim Abbott does a phenomenal job working with those students. Many of them are in elementary school so they are truly going to be bilingual which is really exciting.”

Hear more from Pearson on an upcoming Let’s Talk Knoxville.